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Monday, May 19, 2014

Things To Do While You Wait...

I am not a very patient person and waiting for a baby to come definitely shows how impatient I am.

For some reason in my head I think that my kids should come "early" since my firstborn came at 38 weeks. That's not how it works and I know that but a girl can still hope and pray and dream.

When you've had Braxton Hicks off and on for a month you really start to hope that you will go into labor soon. However, in the meantime you have to stay busy and relax so here's a list that I've compiled of ways to get your mind off of your belly.

Get your nails done

Get a massage

Rearrange your furniture

Have a Jane Austen movie marathon

Bake cookies with the kids and share them with your neighbors

Bake brownies with the kids and share them with your neighbors eat them all

Get an adjustment from your chiropractor

Drink gallons of Red Raspberry Leaf Tea

Walk around your neighborhood and admire all of the flowers

Walk around your neighborhood and make fun of the street names

Hang out in the pool

Walk every aisle at Costco

Bounce on the exercise ball in the hopes of bouncing the baby out

Buy your kids new shoes because they outgrew their old ones

Cook in double batches so you have less to cook when the baby comes

Decide that you are going to eat the food you froze the day before because you are tired of cooking

Take a nap

Research ways to kick start labor

Eat the biggest and spiciest burrito EVER from Qudoba

Wake up in the middle of the night with the worst heartburn ever from a burrito and watch old episodes of Friends while waiting for Peppermint oil to work

Debate eating other spicy foods

Get into an argument on a natural parenting board and type ALL IN CAPS

Decide that parenting boards aren't worth your time

Read some really good books that your friends have recommended

Write an outline for your business plan

Rethink your business plan and rewrite it

Harass your husband by asking for the millionth time if he thinks the baby has dropped

Rearrange your bathroom cabinets

Work in the yard Supervise your family working in the yard

Do as many squats as possible

Soak in the bathtub because your legs hurt from squats

Do as many lunges as possible

Take a shower

Ignore phone calls, texts, messages, and neighbors asking; "When are you going to have that baby?"

Watch Zoolander and laugh through the ridiculousness of it

Get addicted to Dr Who

Get your husband to rub your feet with Clary Sage oil

Dance to 80's rap

Take each of your kids on a date

Surprise your kids with "gifts" from the new baby in the mail (you know your baby is shopping on Amazon right now)

Let your kids pick out a gift for the new baby

Journal

Have an "Art Day" and make a mess

Go on a date with your husband and don't complain about how you feel, how hot it is, and the fact that you are still pregnant